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TECHNICIAN FIFTH CLASS
EDWARD F. STILL III was born August 6, 1916 to Edward F. and Margaret
Buchanan Still. By 1920 the family was renting a home at 2000 Sepviva Street (the
corner of Sepviva and Dauphin) in Philadelphia, where his father worked
as a carpenter in a leather factory. A daughter, Catherine M. Still was
born shortly after the January 1920 census. By 1930 the Still family had
purchased a home at 51 North Mohawk Avenue in Clementon NJ, and the
paternal grandfather had come to live with the family. Edward Still's
father was at this time a millwright at a baseball factory, probably the
A.J. Reach & Company plant in the Kensington section of
Philadelphia. Edward Still graduated from the Gibbs School in Clementon,
and attended Camden County Vocational School.
Edward Still was inducted
into the United States Army in 1941 and trained as a radio operator. He
was assigned to the 2nd Squadron, 4thh
Cavalry Regiment. This unit arrived sent overseas in December of 1943. Upon
arrival in England the 4th Cavalry was broken up, and the 2nd Squadron
was redesignated the 24th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron
(Mechanized).
The 24th Cavalry
Reconnaissance Squadron arrived in France on June 16, 1944. Technician
Fifth Class Edward F. Still was killed in action when the vehicle he was
traveling in struck a land mine, outside
St. Lo on July 5, 1944.
Edward F. Still was
brought home after the war ended, and was buried at Beverly National
Cemetery on July 22, 1948. He was survived by his parents, sister,
grandmother Mrs. Edward Still, and grandfather Charles Buchanan.
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